Last thing about the sno-way! situation

I wasn't much in a writing mood during the snow storm. I think there will always be a part of me that thinks of snow like when I was a kid. These were the days when we'd get off school, drink hot chocolate, and watch movies all day. It felt weird doing anything else. After awhile of just sitting and watching the snow come down, there is an uncontrollable urge to go outside. It doesn't matter if I pay my own bills, live by myself, work towards being a successful independent woman, there is nothing like snow to make you remember that majestic moment of when the first flake drops from the sky and you hope for enough to build something.

Things I learned in the snow

Rather than tell my whole long story of what I did during the snow storm I drew these crude sketches.
Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Here is the story

" Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with a lover in the country"

So much snow! I like the snow, but not for the usual making snowmen and having snowball fights, but for the silence that hugs the city. It gets so quiet and peaceful. It's a silence that pulls you out into a whole other moment. My big plan was to write things in the snow and post pictures but I didn't get that far. Instead, my heat went out and I lit candles and thought of the short story "Snow" by Ann Beattie. I like the story for many reasons. One of the main ones, is that the writing has that still snow feeling to it. It's a honest story.

yay cool blogs yay.

I finally found some fun blogs that deal with poetry and present it in an interesting way.
The first one is a blog that has posted tapes of people reading poems orally. This got me thinking of mixed media blogs. It is called poetry in performance.
http://oralinterpretationofliterature.blogspot.com/

The second one is called Karen and her writing shed. http://writingshed.wordpress.com/about/. This woman renovated this run down shed in the back of her house and uses it to write in. It's an on Walden pond kind of thing. It chronicles her writing and experiences becoming one with the shed.

The third is called beer Haiku daily.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/beer-haiku-daily
The guy writes short little haiku's about beer each day. I thought this was fun and light hearted and this made me realize this whole blog experience doesn't have to be so serious.

How I feel right now

So many boring writers blogs

I found a blog that isn't too bad. It's called the life poetic http://thelifepoetic.wordpress.com/

The thing that stuck out for me with this blog is that it had pictures to go along with the poems. The pictures did help with enhancing the poetry and kept my attention. It was set up in a very clean manner. Picture..Poem..Picture..Poem. I clearly do not read blogs so this has been challenging for me because I don't know where to start. I keep looking on that list of poets and writers in Newpages.com. This I feel, is like finding a needle in a haystack. This journey has pushed me to think outside the box for my blog. Especially, if I plan on putting any poetry up. I am already getting bored with my own blog's straightforward nature.